Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

westcoaster004 writes "Hollywood is blaming Canada as being the source for at least 50% of of the world's pirated movies. According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the recording is taking place in Montreal theatres where films are released in both English and French. This has led to consideration of delaying movie releases in Canada. Their problem is that the Canadian Copyright Act, as well as the policies of local police forces, makes it difficult to come down especially hard on perpetrators. Convicting someone is apparently rather difficult, almost requiring a law officer to have a 'smoking camcorder' in the hands of the accused. Hence, the consideration of more drastic measures."

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What else?

[phantomcircuit]

Well what else are you going to do in canada?!

Tough DRM Because of Canada

[WED Fan]

Those nicey nice Canadidians with their "Ay" and hockey. Hollywood is going to implement tough DRM just because of them. Or, they will stop making movies until Canadidia plays nicey nice with them.

I'd say invade them, hell, their navy has 3 row boats, a buoy, and a guy that knows how to fly fish. Their Air Force has 2 crop dusters and a guy who once did the voice overs for Superman ("Look, up in the sky.") And their Army knows where the ground is when given a multiple choice. It's the Marines I'm afraid of, they know all the words to "I'm a Lumberjack". But, what really scares me about invading Canadidia is that they may want to hug us.

I'd say, send them all our illegals, but they already have the French, and thats worse.

Re:Due South

[KUHurdler]

Man, those 10 eskimos that live in Canada must be really busy pirating. I didn't even know igloos had power.